Mercat de Santa Caterina

Next to the Cathedral of Barcelona, there is a beutiful building not to be missed. This building hosts the Santa Caterina Market or Mercat de Santa Caterina, famous because of its unique and innovative full coloured arquitecture:

Mercat de Santa Caterina

Mercat de Santa Caterina is located whithin Ciutat Vella area at Francesc Cambó avenue no. 16 (metro Jaume I or Urquinaona L4) and it is just 200 meters from the Barcelona’s Cathedral.

This is an intereting aerial view of the building courtesy of photographer Xabier Jubierre:

View of Mercat de Santa Caterina from the sky

Apart from the market itself, Mercat de Santa Caterina also hosts a very nice restaurant with very reasonable prices  where different kind of food is served: Mediterranean, Indian, Oriental, … This restaurantt does not accept reservations so it is recommended to get around 9:00 pm in order to be able to get a table.

Note: This restaurant have really big tables and it is normal that they are shared by different groups of people.

Santa Caterina restaurant:

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November 15th, 2010 | Category: Architecture, Restaurants | Leave a comment

Benedict the XVI visit to Barcelona

Pope Benedict XVI will arrive to Barcelona on November 6th following his visit to Santiago de Compostela coinciding with Santiago de Compostela Holy Year.

The Pope Benedict XVI will preside the consecration of Barcelona’s Cathedral La Sagrada Familia (officially called Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family) and a mass will be celebrated at 10am on November 7th.

During his visit, Pope Benedict XVI will hold a private meeting with the King and Queen of Spain.

The Pope will travel in his vehicle the route between the Archbishop’s residence and the Sagrada Família. Benedict XVI will leave Avinduda Catedral, go up Via Laietana, Carrer Pau Claris, along Carrer Diputació up to Carrer Marina to the Sagrada Familia.

The police will close the roads of the route to traffic from 8am on Sunday 7th November. The City Council has announced that major public transport and traffic alterations in the city during the Pope’s visit will take place.

Barcelona City Council estimates that Pope’s visit will generate €39.8 million to the city’s economy with more than half of this amount coming from money spent by visitors (accommodation, restaurants, shopping, transport, …).

October 17th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Events | Leave a comment

Clocks go back one hour on October 31st

Clocks will go back an hour at 3am on Sunday 31st of October, so at 3am it will be 2am. The idea behind this change is to save hours of daylight and therefore reduce energy consumption.

This means that most people in Spain (and in the rest of Europe) will be able to enjoy an extra hour in bed when clocks go back an hour to mardk the start of Winter time.

Future time changes:

2011 – Sunday 27th of March and Sunday 30th of October
2012 – Sunday 25th of March and Sunday 28th of October

Don’t forget to set your clocks back by one hour on Sunday 31st October

October 7th, 2010 | Category: Useful information | Leave a comment

Joan Gamper Trophy 2010

The Joan Gamper Trophy (Trofeu Joan Gamper in Catalan) is Barcelona’s annual pre-season football competition. It is Barça’s official presentation in front of their own supporters.

This year the Joan Gamper will take place on August 25th at 19:45 and Barcelona will play against Italian giants AC Milan.

This will be the perfect chance to see the new signings Villa and Adriano as well as the rest of Barcelona stars Messi, Xavi, Ibrahimovic, Puyol and of course Iniesta who score the goal the gave Spain their first World Cup title in South Africa.

Ticket prices vary from 19 to 88 euro for the general public and from 14 to 66 euro for Barcelona members.
Tickets can be bought directly at F.C. Barcelona official website.

F.C. Barcelona – Ac Milan – August 25th at 19:45

August 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Sports | Leave a comment
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